Ultimate Factories

Viewers get the key to enter some of the world's greatest one-of-a-kind factories for an insider's perspective on what it takes to produce brand-name wonders such as Ferrari, BMW, Harley-Davidson, John Deere and the M1 tank.

Latest episodes

A look at how Porsche builds the "Panamera," the company's first four door performance sports sedan.

aired 160 days ago

The 2010 Camaro SS is stamped from raw steel and assembled by robots and nearly 5,800 employees to created the car's special unibody construction.

aired 166 days ago

Harley-Davidson creates the revolutionary V-Rod motorcycle.

aired 167 days ago

Building the 200-mph, 500-horsepower Corvette Z06 takes a special factory.

aired 167 days ago

The Dodge Challenger comes to life in two factories, one in Canada and one in Mexico.

aired 173 days ago

San Juan, Puerto Rico is home to one of the world's most popular premium rums, Bacardi.

aired 174 days ago

Coca-Cola reaches more countries than there are in the United Nations, and it takes a power factory to provide a beverage with a famously secret formula consumed in over 99 percent of the populated world.

aired 174 days ago

Lynchburg, Tennessee, where tradition and technology intersect to make 150 million bottles of Jack Daniel's old No. 7 each year.

aired 462 days ago

Hundreds of craftspeople in three different factories take at least two months to hand-build a Rolls-Royce Phantom.

aired 463 days ago

Bentley's ultimate factories construct the Mulsanne, a new design of the luxury car.

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